How fast is your Thumb Drive ?

There are lot of tools available to check data transfer rate in Windows. But on Linux  you can check data transfer rate by just using one command.


Open Terminal.
Application >System Tools > Terminal.
Login with super user credential.

$su

password : (root password)

#hdparm -t /dev/sdb (in my case sdb is pendrive)

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads:   60 MB in  3.00 seconds =  19.98 MB/sec




For detail usage of hdparm command go to terminal and type

#man hdparm

or

#hdparm --help

Note - Some command can be dengerous, Please use them carefully.